Senior Full-Stack / AI Platform Engineer

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies-like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion -have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful-because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Intuitive is building a new AI-powered platform to support how our teams work day to day - combining a

modern web application, cloud-native backend services, and generative AI to make information easier to

find, questions easier to answer, and repetitive work easier to automate.

We're looking for a senior full-stack engineer to help build this platform from the ground up, working across

the entire stack and partnering closely with the business teams who will use it every day. This is a hands-on

role for someone who wants to help shape a new product from its earliest stages - from architecture

decisions through to what the end user actually sees and uses.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain both the frontend and backend of a new internal platform, from early
• prototypes through production
• Build and maintain integrations between the platform and its underlying cloud and AI infrastructure
• Partner directly with the business teams who will use the platform, translating their day-to-day workflows
• into working software
• Implement secure authentication, access control, and data governance appropriate for sensitive
• business data
• Help define and improve engineering practices - testing, CI/CD, deployment, and observability - as
• the platform matures
• Iterate quickly based on real usage and feedback, balancing speed with reliability

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with real production ownership across both frontend and backend systems
• Strong Python skills, with hands-on experience in FastAPI or a comparable async Python web framework
• Strong React + TypeScript experience
• Experience integrating LLM/AI APIs into production applications - agentic or tool-calling patterns are a strong plus
• Experience with a major cloud provider (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP experience with a willingness to go deep on Azure also considered)
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication flows
• Comfort working directly with non-technical business stakeholders to shape product requirements from ambiguous starting points
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments

Nice to Have

• Experience with agent frameworks or tool-calling protocols (e.g., MCP)
• Experience with background job processing and Redis (or similar)
• Experience building products in a regulated or data-sensitive industry (healthcare, financial services, or
• similar)
• Experience with enterprise document platforms (Box, SharePoint, or similar)

What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days

• Core platform infrastructure - authentication, the application shell, and the underlying data model - is
• up and running
• The platform is answering real questions and handling real tasks for an initial group of users, with clear
• traceability back to source data
• You're running regular working sessions with business stakeholders and have shipped the platform's
• first end-to-end automated workflow

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

U.S. Export Controls Disclaimer: In accordance with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR §743.13(b)), some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.S. export controls for prospective employees who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government’s licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (“TCP”) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on

business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.

Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the

candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.